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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






2. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






3. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






4. Whole body learning






5. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






6. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






7. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






8. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






9. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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10. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






12. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






13. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






14. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






15. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






17. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






18. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






19. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






20. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






21. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






22. Feeling through fingertips






23. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






24. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






25. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






26. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






27. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






28. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






29. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






32. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






33. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






34. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






35. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






36. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






37. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






38. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






39. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






40. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






41. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






42. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






43. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






44. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






45. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






46. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






47. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






48. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






49. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






50. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness